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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
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Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.
3) Ender's game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't...
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"Filled with fast-paced action and well-conceived characters.”—Booklist
Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar...
Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar...
5) Heartless
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
6) Cytonic
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So its not exactly a surprise when hes kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours. But Naxs one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy. Nax and three other washouts escapebarelybut theyre also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats. On the run,...
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Approaching storm volume 1
Publisher
Lucas Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
11) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
At the close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin--called Ender--is told that he can no longer live on Earth. The 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begins the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.
12) Rebel dawn
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The third volume in an exciting trilogy that began with The Paradise Snare, this explosive story describes how Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon, the fastest ship in the galaxy, and how he ended up at Mos Eisley in Chalmun's Cantina.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Thrawn trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starlfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and have shouldered heavy burdens in the government of the new Republic. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away, the...
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Thrawn trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey, an Imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord--Grand Admiral Thrawn--has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic's destruction. With the aid of unimaginable weapons long hidden away by the Emperor on a backwater planet, Thrawn plans to turn the tide of battle, overwhelm the New Republic, and impose his iron rule throughout the galaxy. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race...
15) Spectre
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The commander of Voyager, one Tom Paris, explains that Captain Kathryn Janeway and half of the original crew are dead, but if that is true, who is the mysterious woman who has kidnapped Kirk back on Earth, pleading with him to assist her against a threat to the entire Federation?"--Jacket
16) The last command
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Thrawn trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grant Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the Empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of...
17) Once & future
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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King Arthur as you've never imagined! This bold, sizzling YA retells the popular legend with the Once and Future King as a teenage girl -- and she has a universe to save. I've been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I've always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur. Now I'm done hiding. My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to...
18) Queen's shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"When Padmé Naberrie, "Queen Amidala" of Naboo, steps down from her position, she is asked by the newly-elected queen to become Naboo's representative in the Galactic Senate. Padmé is unsure about taking on the new role, but cannot turn down the request to serve her people. Together with her most loyal handmaidens, Padmé must figure out how to navigate the treacherous waters of politics and forge a new identity beyond the queen's shadow"--
19) Skyward
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's - a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa's chances of attending flight school at slim to none. No one will...
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Rama series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle...
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